Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Pegaga Drink Recipe

Pegaga Sugared Drink
or Asian Pennywort Sugared Drinkby oshicare
(Serve 3 person or small family with 2 adults & 2 kids)

Ingredients:

500gm Fresh Pegaga - available at local wet-market/hypermarket
500ml Drinking water
some ice cubes

200gm Rock Sugar
3leaves Pandan leaves, also called screwpine leaves
300ml Water

Steps:
1 Blend fresh Pegaga with water. Rinsed it. Leave aside.
2 Boil 300ml water with pandan leaves in a pot.
3 Add rock sugar to the boiling water, stir well until sugar dissolved. Leave it to cool. Discard pandan leaves.
4 Pour the Pegaga juice into sugared syrup. Added in ice cubes. Ready to serve.


Note:
Consume moderately.
This is a good cooling remedies if one is heaty; 上火 or after taken more than 1 serving of Penang Char Koay Teow.

Monday, July 7, 2008

Cheessy Prawn Recipe

Oshicare Cheessy Prawn Recipe


Ingredients:

1) 300gm Medium Size Prawn with shell intact
2) 1tablespoon Olive oil
2) 3cloves Garlic - chopped into small pieces (i called it 'rice garlic')
3) 3leaves Kaffir Lime Leave - thinly sliced (can get from wetmarket / homegrown)
4) 3slices Cheddar Cheese - 1 slice cut into 6.
5) 3teaspoon Sugar
6) 1/2 teaspoon Salt
6) 1lime Lime juice

Steps:

1) Heat wok with medium-hi fire. Put olive oil into hot wok and add-in rice garlic. Saute garlic till fragrant (slightly brownish).
2) Put in the cleaned prawn into the wok. Slightly stir fried it and add-in kaffir lime leaves and cover wok with lid for 1 minute.
3) Add in salt, sugar and lime juice. Slightly stir fried it again and cook for another 1 minute. When the prawn turned red. It shall considered cook. Served on the plate. Place the cheese over it. It will melt by itself over the hot prawn. Ready to serve.

Remember:
Do not stir fried the prawn vigorously in order to keep the head intact.

Happy Trying.